kārita

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Pali

Alternative forms

Etymology

The adjective is the regular past participle of the causative verb, and is inherited from Sanskrit कारित (kārita), where it is a bound form. The noun is borrowed from Sanskrit कारित (kārita), but may be interpreted a specific application of the adjective.

Adjective

kārita

  1. past participle of kāreti[1], which is causative of karoti (to do)

Declension

Noun

kārita n[1]

  1. (grammar) causative
    • c. 500 AD, Kaccāyana, Pālivyākaraṇaṃ [Pali Grammar]‎ (overall work in Pali), page 291; republished as Satish Chandra Acharyya Vidyabhusana, editor, Kaccayana's Pali Grammar (edited in Devanagari character and translated into English), Calcutta, Bengal: Mahabodhi Society, 1901:
      गुहदुसानं दीघं ॥५॥
      गुह, दुस, इच्चेतेसं धातूनं सरो दीघं आपज्जते कारिते । गूहयति ; दूसयति ॥
      5. Guhadusānaṃ dīghaṃ
      Guha, dusa, iccetesaṃ dhātūnaṃ saro dīghaṃ āpajjate kārite. gūhayati; dūsayati.
      5. Length from guha and dusa
      Guha, dusa: For these roots, the vowel exhibits length in the causative.
      .Exx: gūhayati; dūsayati.

Declension

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Childers, Robert Caesar, Dictionary of the Päli language, London: Trübner & Company, 1875, page 188.